opi nail polish spring colors

zweig2139 April 23, 2023 Comment

Inspired by the colorful and vibrant capital of Japan, the OPI Spring 2019 Tokyo Collection introduces 12 fresh new shades that balance the rich traditions and modern cityscape of Tokyo. I've got reviews and swatches of all 12 shades to share with you. To read on, click......

A brightorange with an almost neon quality, Tempura-tureis Rising is smooth and pigmented. Two coats provide a mostly even finish but I needed three on a few nails to ensure complete opacity.

This is a pale lime green. The formulation is rather sheer so I needed three coats for an even and opaque coverage.

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A gorgeous muted turquoise, I'm On a Sushi Roll has a creamy and smooth formulation. The polish is decently pigmented but I found the application just a tad streaky so I used three coats to attain a completely opaque coverage.

A bluer variation of I'm On a Sushi Roll, Suzi-san Climbs Fuji-san is a dusty medium teal with a nice and pigmented formulation. I only needed two coats for the swatches below.

This is a lovely pastel periwinkle lavender. The formulation is on the sheerer side so I needed three coats for a nice and even coverage.

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One of my favorite colors from the collection, Rice Rice Baby is a dusty pale rose with a subtle hint of mauve. The polish applies darker than it appears in the bottle. Unfortunately, the formulation is a touch patchy so I needed three coats for the swatches below.

A rich plummy berry, Hurry-juku Get this Color! is pigmented but a touch streaky. I used two coats for the swatches below.

One of the few shimmers in this collection, All Your Dreams in Vending Machines is a hot berry pink with a lavender sheen. The formulation is slightly sheer but two coats provide a nice and even finish.

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This is a unique semi-sheer purple scattered with lavender and pink shimmers. The formulation is a bit patchy but two coats provide a decent coverage.

A deep, inky blue packed with bright blue shimmers, Chopstick and Stones is decently pigmented but just a touch gloopy (especially with the second coat). I used two coats for the swatches below.

The Spring 2019 Tokyo Collection is a decent release from OPI. The color selection is heavy on pinks and purples so people who love those shades have many to choose from. I'm personally a bit disappointed with the overall formulation as many shades required three coats for an opaque and even coverage. My personal recommendations are Tempura-ture is Rising!, I'm On a Sushi Roll, and All Your Dreams in Vending Machines. Have you spotted this collection in stores yet? Which shade is your favorite?HAPPY SPRING, EVERYONE! Why yes, since Spring collections always start hitting shelves at the same time each year and every single year I make the same comment about writing this spring post while it’s snowing outside. AND THAT WON’T STOP THIS YEAR, there’s snow on the ground while I’m writing this happy spring post!!!

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Anyways, if it’s not yet the most exciting time of the year in where the weather is finally starting to warm up, it’s at least the most exciting time of the nail polish year: when the first seasonal collections pop up. I do always love a Spring collection, with their bright pops of color – even if I am a big fan of deep, dark vampy shades year round.

And it’s always most exciting for me to start out a new season with OPI. OPI is always the most popular posts on both my blog and Instagram, so clearly you all love it as well.

This year, we have a little collaboration collection for Spring, with OPI joining forces with Xbox. Yes, I didn’t expect it either, but I’m here for whatever. This features 12 mostly cream shades that range across a bright and happy, almost pastel rainbow with various themed names that match up across Xbox and its exclusive games.

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As always, I grabbed this collection from my favorite, polishpick.com. (If you purchase from there, put my name in the drop down as who sent you. Not at all an affiliate thing, just helps show where traffic is coming from).

Starting out with our pinks, we have this very interesting shimmer. This is ‘Pixel Dust’ and it’s a bright, warm-toned pink, almost with some peachy tones to it. And then it has tons of these silvery flakes all throughout giving it an almost foiled look to it.

The formula is a little thinner, feeling like an almost jelly pink base to allow all of the flakes to come through and layer up. So I built it up in 3 thin coats, but I didn’t mind as that finish is so stunning and beautiful! I’ll always take a thinner formula that allows a shimmer or flake to come through.

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Up next we have our first cream shade of the bunch. This is ‘Racing for Pinks’, and as you can imagine it’s a bright, warm-toned pink shade. Again, pulling a little more peachy, but then as we continue on through we have an actual peach shade, so still very pink compared to that.

, but they weren’t my all new favorites from OPI. These felt a little more squishy, and it almost felt like there was some jelly added to these shades. They felt a little more sheer and uneven, and I found myself often adding a 3rd coat to fully smooth out the shades – that was mainly because of my super ridged nails, but I’ve had other OPI creams that still covered in just 2. I have a very high standard for OPI at this point, as I’ve swatched so many of their polishes over the years, and I just know there has been better! I’m always here to be honest, even with a favorite brand. They just could have been

You can even see in these swatch photos, that the ridges in my nails are still almost showing after 3 coats, so this cream and others just felt thinner and less smoothing than other OPI creams. Thinner than some of the later creams in this collection even.

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And now we flip back from a cream to a shimmer. This is ‘Heart and Con-soul’ (points for me loving this name). This is a strawberry red shimmer shade with tons of golden glitter all throughout. This shade is often pulling more warm-toned once on the nails, but I chose to show it as it was on my swatch stick with those definitely blue undertones – so just keep in mind it could pull warmer on your own skin.

Now back to the creams. This next one is ‘Suzi is My Avatar’ (if you didn’t know, the founder of OPI is named Suzi so that’s why there’s always a Suzi-named polish in each collection), and it’s the actual peachy-coral-y shade that I mentioned before. Pulling somewhat orange, but then we have an actual orange later.

So again, this had the cream issue – I feel like you can really see it in the live swatch that the formula almost has some clear base to it. It’s pretty well opaque in 2 coats, but then the ridges in my nails popped through and made it streaky, so I added a 3rd coat. Just not as thick and opaque as I would have wanted – but again, not the worst to even work with at all, I’m just being very picky and honest here.

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And again, the same type of more “squishy” cream formula as others above, and could have been better. I did 3 coats to fully smooth and even out everything on my nails.

‘The Pass is Always Greener’ is a yellow-toned green? A green-toned yellow? It’s right in between the two, and really a perfect shade for summer. And you know the drill at this point – a slightly squishier, almost crelly feeling cream formula here, so I did 3 coats to fully cover my ridged and uneven nails.

I gave it a touch more of a pass since lighter almost yellows like this can be difficult, but as always it’ll depend on your own nails and application.

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Next up is the shade that everyone was lusting over from the promo shots. This is ‘Sage Simulation’. This is definitely a shade that leans more dusty blue – but the green shimmer in it can cause it to pull more green in certain lighting.

NOW the promo shots did really pump up the shimmer on this one unfortunately. It’s very subtle, and hard to pick up, even in my zoomed in shots and direct lighting. I do wish it was more way apparent and more of a green flash, but oh well. At least the base color is great – but keep your expectations realistic for that shimmer. This is why I’m always here to swatch it first for y’all.

Maybe because of the shimmer, this was a thicker formula for me and it was an easy 2 coats to full opacity! So gorgeous color and lovely formula.